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Against a variant like this? >> yes. so, paula, moderna, we've been testing variant specific boosters and vaccines over the summer, one to the beta variant, one to the delta. our platform we can move very fast. we think within, you know, weeks to maybe two to three months we would be able to have an omicron specific vaccine booster available for test willing and then for administration, so, you know, this is going to go at the fastest possible speed, but we have to do careful science now. we don't want to misstep . the academic community around the world need to generate data that we can make ...

First of all, in terms of disease severity, so far, the early reports suggest it's not producing more severe disease in anything we've seen before. delta, the delta variant or the alpha variant. i think the most -- what most -- concerns most people is the fact that there are more than 30 mutations in the spike protein, which is pretty high, including those in the receptor binding domain. that interacts with the receptor so there's worry that this could thwart some of the protection afforded by the immune response to vaccines. but we'll know that over the next week or two. so in our lab, we're ...

Last year, the beta variant was identified there, and there were fears it could spread around the world and become the dominant variant worldwide. that didn't happen. now authorities are working to see whether the new variant will slowly smolder or quickly spread around the planet. elizabeth cohen, cnn, reporting. >> thank you for bringing us up to speed. now to london where nada bashir is standing by. i know two confirmed cases have been found in the country. is contact tracing under way? we expect to hear from officials any minute now. >> absolutely. in the next hour we will hear from prime ...

The other variants. another point to keep in mind. and in terms of whether or not this variant is going to resist the immune response to our current vaccines, it's possible, but it's unlikely to be totally resistant. it may be partially resistant, just like other variants like the b 1351 from south africa, remember that one, the beta variant. and the lamda variant. and those never really took off even though they had a lot of concerning mutations in the spike protein. so we'll know about how effective vaccines are because we can do a test. what you can do is measure antibody responses to the v...

Don't know what is going to happen with it in that respect, we have to wait and see. i5 with it in that respect, we have to wait and see-— wait and see. is it more transmissible, - wait and see. is it more transmissible, which i wait and see. is it more transmissible, which it| wait and see. is it more - transmissible, which it does wait and see. is it more _ transmissible, which it does appear to be, but also is it more dangerous in terms of does it make you more ale and increase the risk of death? i don't think we know that for sure. what we do know as it is a... way the changes have come ...